Category: Undernourished

Touch the Soil News #1053 (Feature photo – Food Kitchen in the U.S. – Public Domain) While the global number of hungry people was almost 1 billion in the 90s, global undernourishment had dropped to 777 million in in 2015. However, over the last two years, global undernourishment has risen to 815 million and impacts about 11 percent of the world’s population. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is concerned about the trend and the international commitment to end hunger by 2030. While the international community battles undernourishment, the world is finding itself in a fight against food with insufficient nutrition (lack of vitamins and minerals) which…